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- Grade Range
- 6th - 10th
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Students examine satellite maps of the world, identify similarities among regions and divide the world into biomes based on similarities found. They discuss animals and why they are found where they live and not in other biomes. Full Review »
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- 7th
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Students analyze biome posters provided by the Library of Congress website to determine what animals live where. The lesson ends with a biome game that includes the use of the posters. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analyze the relationships between biotic diversity and abiotic factors in different environments. Using the characteristics of the biomes, they discover the result on these relationships on various ecosystems. In groups, they create a travel flyer for one of the biomes on Earth following guidelines given to them by their teacher. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students identify the biomes of each region: mountains, forests, plains, tundra, desert. They identify and describe features of North American desert (Mojave, Sonoron, Great Basin. Chihuahaun). They identify what we are doing today is different from what they saw on the Internet. Full Review »
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- 6th
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Students engage in a lesson that investigates the concepts of the ecosystem and how it is separated into different biomes. They each choose a biome and conduct research to find information. Students create a project that gives a comprehensive delivery of the information. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 10th
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Students study the different types of prairies. In groups, they research the animals of the prairie biome and use Kidspiration software to create a concept map of the information they collect. They make an animal from one of the three different types of prairies out of construction paper and art supplies. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students take a quiz on Biomes from the Minnesota Zoo. The Biome Quiz models the Biome Triangle in which they match twenty animals they researched and observed at the zoo with the different biomes they live in. The quiz includes an answer key. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students organize animals at the Minnesota Zoo according to their biomes. Using the biome triangle, they list animals represented at the zoo in the appropriate sections of the chart. Shape of the chart signifies the number of different types of animals present in the different biomes. Full Review »
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- 9th
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Students review their notes over biomes before taking a quiz. Once quiz is completed, individuals work on a tundra worksheet. Before class is released, the worksheet is discussed and the correct answers and reasons for the answers are given. Full Review »
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- 11th
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Students participate in a mock debate on whether or not to keep the wetlands using information they have researched regarding aquatic biomes. In small groups they conduct research, then participate in the mock debate using their research information. Full Review »

